Bill Davidsen wrote:
I'm sure "slow" is a relative term, compared to backing up TBs of data and trying to restore them. Not to mention the lack of inexpensive TB size backup media. That's totally unavailable at the moment, I'll live with what I have, thanks.
You don't backup your RAID arrays? Yikes! For certain data this would be fine (data that you can recreate easily) but it sounds like this isn't the case for you otherwise you'd just wipe the array and recreate the data. There are other modes of failure than just the drives themselves (file system corruption for instance) so it is wise to do backups, even on "redundant" systems.
Good luck, Steve -- ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling Group Email: cousins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Marine Sciences, 452 Aubert Hall http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 Phone: (207) 581-4302 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
